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Gestures brings together for the first time Poetry from six South Asian countries, viz, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka in English translation. The Anthology along with a comprehensive introduction and brief bio-data of the poets features work by Al Mahmud, Asad Chowdhury, Rafiq Azad, Shamsur Rahman (Bangladesh), A.K. Ramanujan, Amrita Pritam, Dilip Chitre, K. Ayyappa Paniker, Gopalakrishna Adiga, Harbhajan Singh, Kamala Das, Keki Daruwalla, Kedarnath Singh, Kunwar Narayan, Ramakanta Rath, Shakti Chattopadhyay, Sitakant Mahapatra, Sunil Gangopadhyay (India), Abdulla Sadiq, Muhammad Jameel (Maldives), Bhupi Sherchan, Laxmi Prasad Devkota (Nepal), Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Kishwar Naheed, Meera Ji, Muneer Niazi, N.M. Rashid (Pakistan), Mahagama Sekera, G.B. Senanayake and Siri Gunasinghe (Sri Lanka) among their peers.
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I. Ahsan Habib :
1. So Vast is the Sea
2. The Kashmir Girl
II. Al Mahmud :
1. The Pitcher of Time
2. Nature
III. Asad Chowdhury :
1. Rights of the Tiger
2. Lamentation
IV. Farrukh Ahmed :
1. The Dahuk
2. Night at Kanchrapara
V. Jasim Uddin :
1. First Love
2. The Chariot of Dhamrai
VI. Mohammad Nurul Huda :
1. Heads
2. White Paper on Bachelorhood
VII. Nirmalendu Goon :
1. Guest of Honour
Firearm
VIII. Rafiq Azad :
1. Those Armed Handsome Men
2. A Young Woodcutter Speaks Out
IX. Shaheed Quaderi :
1. The Deluge
2. A Man in Rain
X. Shamsur Rahman :
1. Mother
2. My Kind of Pride
XI. Syed Ali Ahsan :
1. My East Bengal
2. Solitude
B. India :
I. A.K. Ramanujan :
1. Prayers to Lord Murugan
II. Ajanta :
1. Computer Pictures
III. Akhtar-ul Iman :
1. Confidence
2. Creation
3. An Evening with a Black-and-white Feathered Bird
IV. Amrita Pritam :
1. The First Religion
2. The Conspiracy of Silence
3. My Address
V. Arun Kolhatkar :
1. Song of the Flour Mill
2. A Prostitute on a Pilgrimage
VI. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra :
1. Genealogy
2. Canticle For My Son
VII. Ayyappa Paniker :
1. Horse Play
2. Passage to America
VIII. Balraj Komal :
1. The Sunshine Stood Stripped
2. A One-hand Clap
IX. C. Narayana Reddy :
1. Give you an Ocean
2. The Rooted Chair
X. Chandrashekara Kambar :
1. Cobra Lord Lullaby
2. Black Lad
XI. Dilip Chitre :
1. Ambulance Ride
XII. Dina Nath Nadim :
1. The Moon
2. The Bitter and the Sweet
XIII. Gnanakoothan :
1. My Little World
2. Son To Mother
XIV. Gopalakrishna Adiga :
1. Ghosts and Pasts
2. Do Something, Brother
XV. Gulam Mohammed Sheikh :
1. Mahabalipuram
2. Father in Dream
XVI. H.S. Shiva Prakash :
1. Ambapali
2. Rikyu
XVII. Harbhajan Singh :
1. The Man Minus Feet
2. A Naked Stick in a Box of Matches
XVIII. Hiren Bhattacharya :
1. These My Word
2. Unrivalled
XIX. Jayanta Mahapatra :
1. All The Poetry There is
2. Bone of Time
XX. K.G. Sankara Pillai :
1. The Trees of Cochin
2. The Spectator
XXI. Kamala Das :
1. An introduction
2. The Descendants
XXII. Kedarnath Singh :
1. Things
2. Broken Down Truck
XXIII. Keki N. Daruwalla :
1. Bombay Prayers
XXIV. Kunwar Narayan :
1. The Key to Success
2. To the Mound
XXV. Manglesh Dabral :
1. Poem of Dreams
2. Grandfather's Photograph
XXVI. Munibur Rehman :
1. Tall Buildings
2. The Aboriginal Dance
3. The Obscure City ISO
XXVII. Nabaneeta Deb Sen :
1. Nocturnal Call
2. Gain
XXVIII. Navakanta Barua :
1. The Lift
2. The Moult
XXIX. Nilmoni Phukan :
1. Suddenly the Approaching Cry
2. Only the Sound of Stillness
XXX. Nirendranath Chakravarty :
1. The Visitor
2. Twenty third Spring
XXXI. O.N.V. Kurup :
1. O Black Sun
2. Stones
XXXII. Padma Sachdev :
1. Fragments
2. The Moment of Courage
XXXIII. Raghuvir Sahay :
1. Cycle-rickshaw
2. My Home
XXXIV. Ramakanta Rath :
1. From Sri Radha
2. Love Poems
XXXV. Shakti Chattopadhyay :
1. Just Once Try
2. The Cat
XXXVI. Shamsher Bahadur Singh :
1. In Bits and Pieces
2. A Man Pushing Aside Two Mountains with His Elbows
XXXVII. Sitakant Mahapatra :
1. A Morning in the Rains
2. Death of Krishna
XXXVIII. Sitanshu Yashashchandra :
1. Sea Horses
2. Under Stones
XXXIX. Sowbhagya Kumar Misra :
1. Father
2. O Crow
XL. Srikant Verma :
1. Magadh
2. Process
XLI. Subhas Mukhopadhyay :
1. Proposal
2. No Matter how far
XLII. Sugathakumari :
1. Rain
2. Colossus
XLIII. Sundara Ramaswamy :
1. Love's Wings
2. Life
XLIV. Sunil Gangopadhyay :
1. My Lord King
2. Suddenly for Neera
XLV. Surjit Patar :
1. As I Was About to Touch You
2. Returning Home
XLVI. Thangjam Ibopishak :
1. Poem
2. Manipur
XLVII. Vinda Karandikar :
1. The Wheel
2. The Insane
XLVIII. Vinod Kumar Shukla :
1. Those That will Never Come to My Home
2. One Should See One's Own Home from Far off
C. MALDIVES :
I. Abdulla Fahumy Didi :
1. The Worthlessness of this World
II. Abdulla Sadiq :
1. Impossible
2. I Saw it in My Dream
III. Adam Abdurrahman :
1. I see it Happening
IV. Al-Usthadh Noonu Thaa Hassan Didi :
1. My Epitaph
V. Hussain Afeefudhdheen :
1. Vista of Dawn
VI. Hussain Salaahudhdheen :
1. A Sweet Existence with no Effort
VII. Muhammadh Jameel :
1. The Spirit of Our Forefathers
VIII. Saeed Ali Fulhu :
1. The Voice of Freedom
IX. Yosuf Mohamed Fulhu :
1. The Complaint of a Powerless Tongue
D. NEPAL :
I. Basu Shashi :
1. One Such Flower is Needed
II. Bhupi Sherchan :
1. The Bell Tower
III. Kedar Man Vyathit :
1. Union
IV. Laxmi Prasad Devkota :
1. Song of a Nightingale
V. Madhav Ghimire :
1. Like Man Divine
VI. Parijat :
1. One Room, One Purpose and One 'Intellectual' Woman
VII. Siddhicharan Shrestha :
1. My Reflection
E. PAKISTAN :
I. Ahmad Faraz :
1. Return
2. You and I
II. Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi :
1. Mist
III. Fahmida Riaz :
1. Come, Give Me Your Hand
2. The Laughter of a Woman
3. O God of Heaven and Earth
IV. Faiz Ahmed Faiz :
1. If you Look at the City From Here
2. A Few Days More
3. To The Rival
4. Solitude
5. Love, Do Not Ask
V. Iftikhar Arif :
1. Perspective
2. Dialogue
3. And the Wind Was Silent
VI. Kishwar Naheed :
1. We Sinful Women
2. The Grass is Really Like Me
3. A Palace of Wax
VII. Majeed Amjad :
1. The Beggar
2. The Scream
3. A Harappan Inscription
4. Spring
5. What Days, Indeed
VIII. Meera Ji :
1. The Story of the Night in the Guise of Day
IX. Muneer Niazi :
1. Thinking of Other Universes
2. Sisyphean Essay
3. Still-Life
X. Nasir Kazmi :
1. Come into My Heart
2. Once Again with the Breeze
3. Why Change into New Clothes
XI. N.M. Rashid :
1. Hasan, The Potter
XII. Parveen Shakir :
1. Consolation
2. Intoxication
3. The Den
XIII. Saqi Farooqi :
1. In Trust
2. Sher Imdad Ali's Tadpole
XIV. Zehra Nigaah :
1. Compromise
2. The Moonflower Tree
F. SRI LANKA :
I. Folk Poem :
1. Yasodhara's Lament
II. G.B. Senanayake :
1. Killing One's Gods
III. Mahagama Sekera :
1. Forgotten Village
IV. Munidasa Kumaranatunge :
1. The Hare
V. Siri Gunasinghe :
1. Renunciation
VI. Vimalaratna Kumaragama :
1. The Prison
Poets' Biodata
K. Satchidanandan who has edited this volume is a pioneer of modern poetry and criticism in Malayalam with 18 collections of poetry, two plays, 15 collections of critical articles and interviews and 15 collections of translated poetry. He has four highly acclaimed collections of poetry in English translation : Summer Rain, How to Go to the Tao Temple, Imperfect arid Other New Poems and So Many Births: Three Decades of Poetry. Some of his critical articles have been collected under the title Indian Literature: Positions and Propositions. Winner of ten state-level and national awards for literature, his works have been translated into several major Indian and foreign languages and included in national and international anthologies. He has done readings and lectures in all major countries of Europe and Asia besides USA. Having been a Professor of English and the editor of Indian Literature, he now heads the Sahitya Akademi, the Indian National Academy of Letters.
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